Series 2 - Correspondence

1.04 m of textual and graphic records

The correspondence in this series consists is primarily professional, with a number of personal letters scattered throughout. Though the outside dates are given as 1962 to 2005, the bulk of the correspondence dates from the mid-1970s. The arrangement is alphabetical
by name of the author, with a ‘miscellaneous” file at the beginning of many letters. Included are substantial files on individuals who were closely connected with the University of Toronto and/or the Ontario Cancer Institute, including Ronald Buick, Alastair J. Cunningham, Norman Iscove, Harold E. Johns, Dorothy Lamont, Tak Mak, Ernest A. McCulloch and David Tritchler. Non-University of Toronto people, with whom there is extensive correspondence, include Sam Lan and William J. McKillop.

The correspondence covers a wide range of Dr. Till’s activities during the period covered.

Some of it relates to honours bestowed on his colleagues, including the recognition of those who had died with accompanying eulogies and obituaries. There is much correspondence on issues relating to research, including the writing of papers and the delivering of public addresses, and including drafts of some of the latter. There are also letters of reference, correspondence and memoranda relating to the defence of theses and to visiting professors and researchers. Also accompanying the correspondence is notes, biographical sketches, programmes, articles, photographs and a few slides.

Letters of reference are closed for 30 years from date of letter. Requests for access to the restricted material shall be referred to the University Archivist. These letters are scattered throughout the whole of Series 2: Correspondence. Series 2 is therefore restricted.

-For additional material on research papers and public addresses, see Series 7 and 8.
-For photographs, slides see Series 9.

-Photographs relating to the National Cancer Institute of Canada’s Centre for Behavioural Research and Program Evaluation workshop, ‘Health sciences research in breast cancer’, 24 November, 1995, have been removed from box 001(14) to 001P(02);
-A photograph of Alan Forsyth Howaston has been removed from box 003(04) to 001P (03);
-Photographs of Ernest A. McCulloch have been removed from box 006(02) to 001P (04);
-Photograph and slides relating to the Symposium on Hemopoietic Stem Cells (16-17 May 2001, Toronto) have been removed from box 006(03) to /001P (05);
-A photograph of participants in the first Canada-US Breast Cancer Advocacy Conference, Geneva Park, Ontario, 17-20 November 1996 has been removed from box /007(09) to /001P(06);
-An informal photograph of Michael Smith after he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been removed from box 008(05) to /001P(07).